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What is Somnia?

Somnia is a high-performance, cost-efficient EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain capable of processing over 1,000,000 transactions per second (TPS) with sub-second finality. It is suitable for serving millions of users and building real-time mass-consumer applications like games, social applications, metaverses, and more, all fully on-chain.

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Key Features

  • Ultra-High Performance: Capable of processing over 1,000,000 TPS with sub-second finality
  • EVM-Compatible: Full compatibility with Ethereum smart contracts and tooling
  • Mass-Consumer Focus: Designed for real-time applications serving millions of users
  • Cost-Efficient: Optimized for high-throughput, low-cost transactions
  • Gaming & Metaverse Ready: Specialized infrastructure for gaming and metaverse applications
  • Social Applications: Built to support large-scale social platforms and applications

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Performance Benchmarks

  • 1,050,000 TPS: Achieved with ERC-20 transfers between several hundred thousand accounts
  • 50,000 Uniswaps per second: Running Uniswap V3 with several hundred thousand accounts trading one LP pool
  • 300,000 NFT mints per second: Supporting 100,000 accounts minting NFTs simultaneously

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Ecosystem Highlights

  • High-performance infrastructure for mass-consumer applications
  • Gaming and metaverse platform capabilities
  • Social application support at scale
  • Real-time transaction processing
  • Support for various application types including:
    • Games
    • Social applications
    • Metaverses
    • Real-time consumer applications
    • High-throughput DeFi protocols

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Data on Dune

Raw Data

Access to raw blockchain data including blocks, transactions, logs, and traces

Decoded Data

Human-readable contract interactions and events

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Resources

Somnia Documentation

Official documentation for developers building on Somnia